Definition

treatment, i.e. an act (of good or ill); by implication, service or requital

Etymology

from H1580 (גָּמַל);

Where the KJV renders it

• as hast served
• benefit
• desert
• deserving
• that which he hath given
• recompense
• reward

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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